National Republican., 1887-04-11
THE MONSTERS OVERTHROW.
SUBJECT OF REV. DIR. TALMAGE'S
EASTER SERMON.
He Discourses on tho Resurrection
After Death aud Holds IL Not Incred-
ible That God Should Raise the Dead
--Cremation or Jnbumation.


Sunday the Tabernacle was profusely decor
ated with flowers. The pulpit, the pillars, and
the galleries were one great garden ofbloom'
Prof Browne, the organist and Prof. ALI, the
cornetist rendered selections from Handel
Haydn, and Beethoven, appropriate 10 the day
celebrated. The subject OF DR.. Talmage's dis
course was "The Overthrow of the Monster"
and his text, Isaiah XIV, s: "He will swallow
up death In victory" DR.. Talmage said:
About eighteen hundred aud hfty-three
Easter mornings have wakened the earth. In
France for three centuries the almanacs made
the year begin at Easter, until Charles TX
made the year begin at Jan. l, In the Tower
Of London there Is n royal payroll OF Edward
for 400 colored and pictured Easter eggs, with
which the people sported, In Russia, slaves
were ted and aims were distributed on Easter.
at Rome at Achaia to decide the particular
day, and after a controversy, more animated
than gracious, decided IT, and now through
all Christendom. In some way, the first Sum
day after the full moon which happens upon
or next afler March u is filled with Easter re.
The royal court of the sabbaths is made up
OF fifty-two. Fifty-one are princes in the royal
household, but Easter is queen. She wears
richer diadem and sways a more jeweled
ated. Unusually welcome this years because
Of the harsh winter and the late spring. she
seems to step out of the snow bank rather than
stead Of the SOUTH out of the Arctic rather
than the tropics, dismounting from the Icy
equinox; but welcome this queenly day, hold
Ing high up in her tight hand the wrenched'
oil bolt Of Christ's sepucher, and holding high
up in her left hand the key to all the ceme-
II is an exciting thing to see an army routed
and flying. They run each other down: They
wSeeea sisy Moo horse s breast Of
wounded and dying man. You have read of
the French falling back from Sedan. or Ma
banks OF Russia, or OF the retreat of our own
fumblins over the rocks Of Bsthoran with
heaven and the swords of Joshua's hosts
struck them with their. fury; In my
text is worse nsnScosd disco%ature y i
the Garth He gathered fol. his host ali the
aches, and pains, and malarias and cancers,
and pem Sns the
northeast wind and amid the slush of tenn
pests; He threw up bsrricades Of fgravemound;
the troops marched with slow tread COM
manded by consumptions, some in double
quick, commanded by pneumonias. Some he
some some BY 'Vms one stroke Of the battle aye Of
the, door of hospitals and, sick rooms,
tie fields of all the FIVE continents. Forward
march, tho conqueror Of conquerors, and all
presidents pre- and nd kings and suitaHs aud czars IT'S
drop under the feet OF his war charger, But
one Christmas night his antagonist was born.
e J SS K
ate that the new conqueror should come
out of the same quarter. Power Is given
Ill him tho TO esnsaIss sMsGSn and all 'es Allen lands
and marshal them against the black giant
Fields have already been won but the last day
battle. When Christ shall lead forth His two
brigades, the brigade Of the risen dead and the
brigade 9f the celestial host, the black M giant giant
sepulchers will take Him from beneath, and
the brigade of descending immortals will take
Him from above, and death shall be swallowed
The old braggart that threatened the con-
guest and demolition OF the planet has lost
palace, has lost his prestige, and the. one
word written oil over the gates of mausoleum
and catacomb and metropolis, on cenotaph and
explorer, and on the catafalque Of great
cathedral, written in capitals Of azalea and
Gala lily, written in musical cadence written
in doxology of great assemblages, written on
the sculptured door of the family vault, is
victory Coronal word. embannered word,
apocalyptic word, chief word of the trlumphal
arch under which conquerors return.
Victory words shouted at Culloden and
Balahlava and Blenheim, at Megiddo and Sol.
drove back the Medge; at Poictiers, where
Charles Martel broke the ranks OF the Sara
Gems: at Salamis, where Themistocles, In the
at the door of the eastern cavern Of chiseled
rock, where Christ came out through recess
and throttled the King OF TerTors and put him
Conqueror had just emerged. Aha when the
jaws of the eastern mausoleum took down tho
black giant "death was swallowed up In VIC
tory" proclaim the abolition Of death.
The old antagonist is driven back into
mythology with all the lore about Stygian
rose Abbey and Kenilworth Castle are nc
more in the ruins than is the sepuicher We
shall have no more to do with death than We
Presidents ievee. We stop at such cloak
our oyercoat, opr oyershoes, our, out,
impeded ddiRatSS IN The brilliant round Of the draw:
ing room. Well, my friends, when we 40 ou
OF this world we are going 70 kings banquet
door Of the tomb we leave the cloak of flesh
and the wrappings with which we meet thu
a Reception, under the brush and broom Of thu
porter, the coat or hat may be handed to us
better than when we resigned 1t, and the cloal
proved and frightened and purided and glori
Ycu and do not want our bodies returned a
hsSt ass asw anS Is
fatigue and all their slowness of locomotion
They will be. put through chemistry Of sol
Of which God will reconstruct them as muci
than they n9y Sa S 81 a
the % lawn at Prospect Park is better thar
the sickest patient In bellevue Hospital. Blu
as to our soul, we will cross right over. no
into state in every way better, with wide
room and velocitles beyond computation; th'
dullest Of US into companionship with the yer!
pasior @ Of tSe universe, Inc four walls barnishe;
al ' the H1 spiendOrs hat The mdnits God in al
This View Of course makes Il Of but little I'M
iured. Ifthe latter Y dust 70 dust, the forne
let them have It without caricature. The
world may become so crowded that cremation
may be universally adopted by law as well
snd best spirits si have gone gone through this pro
o. Gods children, have been cremated
Singers sss ana BY sosdent as at evsaSs
Won; Latimer and Ridley, cremated at oxford
at the order of Marcus Ahrelius-at least
hundred thousand OF Christ,s disciples, ere
resurrection OF their bodies. II the worl
lasts as much longer as 1t has already bee
built, there perhaps may 6e , no room pom for ,! !h
places, but that time has not come. Plent
Of room yet, and the race need not pass tina
bridge OF fire until comes to IT,, The most Of u
prefer the old way. But whether out ofnatu
raj disintegration or cremation we shall &c
that luminous, buoyant, gladstone, transcend
ent, magnificent, inexplcable structure calle,
the resurrection body, You will have II, vii
have il. Isay to you to-day, es Paul said d
Agrippa: "Why should II be thought thin
incredible with you that God should raise tn
deadf'' The far-up cloud. higher than the haw
flies, higher than the eagle nies, what
1t made or Drops of water from the Hudson
other drops from the East river, other drol
from stagnant pool out on Newark iiats-u
yonder there embodied In cloud and the sn
kindles II. III God can make such lustrol
cloud out OF water drops, many Of them sole